How to upgrade your character?

[Cpt_Weisemann]

Title.

[HeyItzWerty]

Once you get to the second "Act" there is a machine after completing the first level

[Crotech]

Im up to act 2, I think its act 2, its when you get to the city right? Ive done the first mission and I cant find anything to upgrade your character, ive done the side missions before getting to that area.

[The answer is the question]

You cant upgrade base character points instead you can mod them with perks on weapons armour and implants. Also the shoulder mounted cannon can be upgraded. Its not really a ARPG its certainly what you could call a lite rpg. If anyone would like to add to the growing stickied mods list be my guest. Also a weapons armour and implants list would be great, well once someone figures out what the best stuff in game is hehe.

[Crotech]

and where do I find the machine/interface to do that? I can only upgrade the shoulder mount but I've yet to find anything that can upgrade gear

[The answer is the question]

Oh you don't upgrade items but instead have to find or buy items with altered stats. I'll update the sticky. One interesting thing ive not yet played with is the converter. That'll be a whole nother ball game, maybe possible to get some nice and rare items?

From the news post

Principles of operation of the Converter:

- from three items of equipment creates one random;

- the chance to obtain subject with high characteristics more, than under the usual drop;

- the chance to get a high quality item depends on the total quality of the converted items;

- the type of the created object in an equal ratio depends on the types of the transformation object.

You know what it reminds me of? The horadric cube. Your rolling for stats mainly.

[Crotech]

one of the pictures on the store page looks very much like a stat/skill/perk page for your character not gear, very deceptive if it isnt and borderline a reason for me to refund the game. Alien shooter games always had a leveling system and skill/stat pages, it sucks that this doesnt have it, or atleast I have yet to unlock it

[The answer is the question]

Originally posted by Spess Mehren:

one of the pictures on the store page looks very much like a stat/skill/perk page for your character not gear, very deceptive if it isnt and borderline a reason for me to refund the game. Alien shooter games always had a leveling system and skill/stat pages, it sucks that this doesnt have it, or atleast I have yet to unlock it

If your meaning the second screenshot that's the shoulder mounted cannon upgrades. I dunno why they choose to go the path of no character stats upgrading, in any case you just do it with mods/perks. You can still level cannon by upgrading each skill, you need to save alot of normal and junk loot in AS2 The Legend for breaking down to components to level cannon skills.

[Crotech]

its the forth

[The answer is the question]

Originally posted by Spess Mehren:

its the forth

Im not sure which your talking about unless its the in game store displaying a drone. Sorry that you don't like the way the game works, their trying some new ideas that's not always going to be welcome by everyone. Perhaps they need to improve the store page description screenshots so that people particularly coming from older Alien Shooter games are aware of how the game now works. That's were reviews can help.

[Crotech]

sorryit was the fifth picture here is a picture https://imgur.com/cRUmfeU

[The answer is the question]

Originally posted by Spess Mehren:

sorryit was the fifth picture here is a picture https://imgur.com/cRUmfeU

Thought you might be meaning that not really a screenshot. Yeah i just noticed too, i think thats from the mobile game not been ported over perhaps. They really should update store page if its a missing feature or not intending to add to pc version. They also look more like character perks. If you google you can find the android and ipod versions, there's a fair bit more content in the mobile versions maybe it takes time and work to port various content over some maybe impossible to convert to pc for steam. Im no programmer so i wouldn't know. Like i know the arena mode isn't here that's multiplayer.

[The answer is the question]

I get it, take a look at the basic icons on armour and weapons you'll notice icons next to each stat. Forinstance the feather icon which i believe is meant to represent weight. All implants also show icons next to perks. One way to upgrade items however is the converter https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791464936046/announcements/detail/3587611557907092977 perhaps that's what their meaning?

[Crotech]

except ive yet to see one of those icons as a perk, it might be a stat value on gear, but look at the lines connecting them, they look as if its an upgrade path, like invest 5 points here unlock the next perk type thing

[The answer is the question]

This line from the news post
'- the chance to obtain subject with high characteristics more, than under the usual drop;' so maybe it adds perks to items?

[The answer is the question]

Originally posted by Spess Mehren:

except ive yet to see one of those icons as a perk, it might be a stat value on gear, but look at the lines connecting them, they look as if its an upgrade path, like invest 5 points here unlock the next perk type thing

Nah i don't think the game works that way, i know what your saying. I'll let you know when i get access to the converter. Could be special perks.